All of the above should be OK. Where do we draw the line at censorship or freedom of speech?? While I wouldn't read, recommend or purchase any of those books myself, when we start censoring things, we're allowing a compromise of the Constitution. That said, when any of those things (pedophilia, robbing banks, eradicating pedophiles) are put into practice, THEN it becomes a problem. A good example is the bastardization of the 2nd Amendment. Little by little, it has been eroded. If you think I'm a Libertarian, perhaps I am a little. My MAIN concern is the support of the Constitution. Just because something is disgusting, wrong, immoral or otherwise evil doesn't mean it can't be written about. (It probably shouldn't, but that's a different debate)
Get real, Vesta. The "ties of civilisation" (as you put it) have been loose for a long time. It's just more prevalent anymore. IMO, it seems as if sick and/ or immoral people just want their time in the "limelight" instead of hiding behind closed doors. I think that you can thank the Hippies of the 60s for all of this.
Interesting ideas you have there but ever wonder what the hippies were being spoon fed in school.?
Kids did not come up with their new life style alone, there were adults that paved the way. Adults teachers in college, high school, free thinking Pastors in our churches, parents that did not give a darn what the kids were doing, courts that gave the kids a free pass.
One cannot blame this on the kids who took their teachers to heart.
You had to be there and see the weird stuff that the Adults fostered on the kids. I was there and by the grace of God I married very young and was too busy changing diapers to head for San Fransisco with flowers in my hair.
When the abortion issue came up, I was stunned, who would kill a baby ? Not from religious reasons just as a woman. It was not the Hippies that pushed that bill but the adults .
Yeah, our Greatest Generation had left their kids out of the mix. They became so concerned with the happiness of their kids that they let them run wild. New older adults came into the mix the child Physiologists that encouraged the parents to allow their kids to "find themselves with no rules or guidance"
Why do you think so many kids now are labeled with an abc of disorders.?